The Information Security Group will be holding its first ISG Research Webinar on 10 November 2016. That is, Professor Kenny Paterson's talk will be live streamed at: http://livestream.com/accounts/8938540/events/6543304. The seminar is based on a paper written by ISG researchers which recently won the Best Paper Award at ACM CCS 2016 (The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security). The details are as follows:Date: Thursday 10 November 2016 @ 11:00 GMTSpeaker: Professor Kenny PatersonTitle: A Surfeit of SSH CiphersuitesAbstract: This talk presents a systematic analysis of symmetric encryption modes for SSH that are in use on the internet providing deployment statistics, new attacks and security proofs for widely used modes. Joint work with Martin Albrecht, Jean Paul Degabriele and Torben Brandt Hansen.

Every year a number of the top graduates of the GCHQ accredited MSc Information Security and its sister distance learning course contribute valuable white papers to the information security industry through a series hosted by Computer Weekly. Many of the authors were already experts in their subjects before starting the MSc in order to widen and deepen their knowledge of information security in general. The result is a series of informative leading edge articles, written under the guidance of their ISG supervisors, which provide to a wide professional readership a useful, informed, non-technical yet expert insight into a number of important topics. They represent the highlights from the culmination of a number of months study of the latest work in the area which was the subject of the main author's dissertation.